Advanced Innovative Technologies

Abstract

The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) identifies, analyzes, demonstrates, and transitions game-changing applications of existing and near-term technology (and other U.S. Government capabilities) to shape and counter emerging threats. Currently focused on the Asia-Pacific Rebalance, SCO combines capability innovation with concepts of operation and information management to develop novel concepts often crossing Service, Defense-Intelligence, and multi-classification divides. This helps to solve critical national security challenges in partnership with the Services, Defense Agencies, Combatant Commands (COCOMS), Joint Chiefs of Staff, Intelligence Community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). SCO analyzes, demonstrates, and red-teams these concepts on an accelerated time frame to enable subsequent programmatic decisions on alternative capabilities that have greater mission impact and lower cost. The Advanced Innovative Technologies Program Element (PE) contains projects that include in-depth analysis to determine technical and operational performance and risk, component and subsystem-level prototyping and testing to reduce risk, and operational demonstrations to prove concept viability prior to subsequent programmatic decisions. Due to the nature of these projects, specific applications and detailed plans are available at a higher classification level.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0604250D8Z_4_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: The program changes are threefold: a continuation of the Land-Based Rail Gun (LBRG) program which had two-year funding (FY 2014 and FY 2015); the expansion of LBRG to include Land-based and Sea-based powder guns; and the addition of three new projects for SCO. 1) Funds are provided to both continue the LBRG efforts that began in FY 2014 and expand the program to include Land-based and Sea-based Powder Guns. This combined program will demonstrate closing the fire control loop between existing sensors and prototype projectiles launched from Railgun and existing powder guns, including Navy's Mk-45 five inch Naval gun and the Army's Paladin 155 millimeter (mm) self-propelled howitzer powder guns. 2) The Sea Dragon project will integrate an existing weapon system into an existing Navy platform to demonstrate a cost-effective offensive weapon system capability. 3) The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Payloads project will leverage existing low-cost payloads by integrating them with UAVs (e.g. micro-UAVs) capable of autonomous swarming behaviors. 4) The Sea Mob project, in partnership with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), will develop a group of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) capable of cooperative swarming behaviors.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Classification
• Control Systems
• Emerging Threats
• Guns
• Military Research
• National Security
• Naval Guns
• Product Prototyping
• Prototypes
• Sea Based
• Self Propelled
• Self Propelled Guns
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Surface Vehicles
• Vehicles

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Strategic Security Studies